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Is "gnu" really pronounced "guh-noo"? Doesn't anyone else find this
like really really gay?
I want to get into Linux, but it's just so nerdy. Thanks in advance.

ps. I am *not* a troll -- I just spent $66 on Slack 12. But... I *am*
a Gnome. I prefer it to KDE! Even with its stupid, blurry-ass fonts.
Still all the graphical window managers I've seen look really dumb,
and I prefer the Win98 / XP Classic look so much more, because it
seems serious and business-like.

matthew871@gmail.com trolled:

>Is "gnu" really pronounced "guh-noo"? Doesn't anyone else find this
>like really really gay?

Is gay as in guh-ay? Do you think that the name of the gnu software
is homosexual? Ask Dan C. He is the local expert in these matters.

>I want to get into Linux, but it's just so nerdy. Thanks in advance.

The only people who say that are those who can't figure it out. If
you are worried about being called "nerdy", you should get a Mac.

Seriously.

>ps. I am *not* a troll -- I just spent $66 on Slack 12. But... I *am*
>a Gnome. I prefer it to KDE! Even with its stupid, blurry-ass fonts.
>Still all the graphical window managers I've seen look really dumb,
>and I prefer the Win98 / XP Classic look so much more, because it
>seems serious and business-like.

Guh-nome isn't gay, but it _is_ junk.

cordially, as always,

rm

On 2007-07-06, matthew871@gmail.com <matthew871@gmail.com> wrote:

> ps. I am *not* a troll

Did you know there's a direct proportional relationship to the
number of times one claims "I am not a troll" and the likelihood
that one is in fact a troll?

[rest of trolling snipped]

--keith


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matthew871@gmail.com wrote:
>
> ps. I am *not* a troll

Yeah y'are!

>
> ...I prefer the Win98 / XP Classic look so much more, because it
> seems serious and business-like.
>

Give qvwm a try:

http://www.csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~kourai/qvwm/

On Jul 6, 12:56 am, Keith Keller <kkeller-use...@wombat.san-
francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> On 2007-07-06, matthew...@gmail.com <matthew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ps. I am *not* a troll
>
> Did you know there's a direct proportional relationship to the
> number of times one claims "I am not a troll" and the likelihood
> that one is in fact a troll?
>
> [rest of trolling snipped]
>
> --keith
>
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How the fuck was I trolling?

I wasn't fucking trolling. I was asking a legitimate sociological
question regarding the geekiness of these computer words like gnu and
all that shit. I wanted to know if you computer nerds actually thought
this word sounded good and normal and not stupid to say outloud in
front of respectable people without expecting a certain degree of
awkwardness due to the fact that the word sounds so goddam geeky. I
wanted to learn, in short, whether the word, and other geeky computer
jargon like it, is INTENDED to sound geeky and uncomfortable in normal
conversation.

I will leave, though, and get my help ELSEWHERE, but thank you Chris
Sorenson, for at least being kind enough to point me in the direction
of that Windows-like interface, which is interesting. But I think I
will try Ion or wmii instead.

Assholes!

On 2007-07-06, matthew871@gmail.com <matthew871@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 12:56 am, Keith Keller <kkeller-use...@wombat.san-
> francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>> On 2007-07-06, matthew...@gmail.com <matthew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ps. I am *not* a troll

one...

> How the fuck was I trolling?

two...

> I wasn't fucking trolling.

three strikes you're out!

Thanks for trolling, troll. Better luck next time.

> Assholes!

Boy, you showed us (which is really me, since you didn't dislike the
only other response I've seen so far, so if your claims about not being
a troll are true, you'll killfile me rather than leave the newsgroup).

--keith

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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:21:57 -0000
matthew871@gmail.com wrote:

> Is "gnu" really pronounced "guh-noo"? Doesn't anyone else find this
> like really really gay?

"
GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"; it is pronounced guh-noo, approximately like canoe.
"
[http://www.gnu.org/]

HTH ;-)

Mikhail

On Jul 6, 2:30 am, Mikhail Zotov <invalid_mux...@lenta.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:21:57 -0000
>
> matthew...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Is "gnu" really pronounced "guh-noo"? Doesn't anyone else find this
> > like really really gay?
>
> "
> GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"; it is pronounced guh-noo, approximately like canoe.
> "
> [http://www.gnu.org/]
>
> HTH ;-)
>
> Mikhail

Why does gnu.org use an anti-aliased font? blurriness is preferable?

It looks like this close-up:
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8...ctypefozt6.png

It doesn't look as bad when you enlarge it with CTRL++ in Firefox, but
then it's too big to read.

matthew871@gmail.com wrote:
> Is "gnu" really pronounced "guh-noo"? Doesn't anyone else find this
> like really really gay?
> I want to get into Linux, but it's just so nerdy. Thanks in advance.
>
> ps. I am *not* a troll -- I just spent $66 on Slack 12. But... I *am*
> a Gnome. I prefer it to KDE! Even with its stupid, blurry-ass fonts.
> Still all the graphical window managers I've seen look really dumb,
> and I prefer the Win98 / XP Classic look so much more, because it
> seems serious and business-like.
>

It is possible to have non good antialised fonts in Linux but it ask
some work (I have done it because I couldn't get used to these blurry
fonts). You can loo at a screenshot of my configuration here (the
screenshot is on KDE with another distribution but I have tested it with
gnome and Slackware as well). If you are interested I could post a small
howto (but apparently very few people are interested).

Olive

> It is possible to have non good antialised fonts in Linux but it ask
> some work (I have done it because I couldn't get used to these blurry
> fonts). You can loo at a screenshot of my configuration here (the
> screenshot is on KDE with another distribution but I have tested it with
> gnome and Slackware as well). If you are interested I could post a small
> howto (but apparently very few people are interested).
>
> Olive

Just forget the screenshot:

http://www.geocities.com/evilosser/n...alised-kde.jpg

OLive